Darren Rowse

It looks like Google are releasing something that sounds a lot like MyYahoo! that integrates a lot of their services onto a new personalized home page. Initally planned for a June 30 launch, the new home page option, part of an internal project called “Fusion” aimed at better integrating Google’s ...more

Matthew posts a useful little tip for bloggers who are Firefox users – he’s been experimenting with the tabbed browsing feature to speed up his blogging workflow. My Blogging WorkFlow – I use Safari as my browser of choice and similarly use tabs in conjunction with Bloglines to speed up ...more

Simon Canning wrote a feature in The Australian that touches a bit of blogging and advertising. It largely focuses upon MSN Spaces which it claims makes up a third of all Australian blogs (estimated at 360,000 in number). I’m a bit skeptical of these figures and wonder how their source ...more

Ken Smith from Weblogs in Higher Education has a good post where he attempts to describe a ‘good blog’ – he writes: ‘A good blog has a focus, a field or topic where the writer keeps up with what’s being said. The writer attends with interest to the work being ...more

Wow – look at the innovations that are happening in comments systems at the moment – Peter from Almost Cool pointed me over to the beautifully designed snook.ca’s beautiful blog with its wonderful comments system. It has live preview of comments with yellow fade. Peter also points to the relational ...more

“Two Heads are better than one”…. or so the old saying goes. I’ve been reflecting this week about the importance of relationships in blogging. I met up with an old university friend this week for the first time since we studied marketing together – catching up stimulated me to begin ...more

Yahoo! have just released a helpful Publisher’s Guide to RSS which has comprehensive sections on Submitting RSS Feeds, promoting RSS feeds, Tracking Success and Monetizing RSS Feeds. On the money side of things the page is just a place holder/teaser of what is to come. They write: ‘Yahoo! plans to ...more

In my last post (written last night) I suggested that Google Adsense start a blog. This morning I wake up and check in with Jen only to find that Adwords (the advertisers side of Adsense) has started a blog – Inside Adwords. Whilst on the advertising side of Adwords this ...more

JenSense has noticed some new pages in the Adsense rabbit warren of support pages. Now they have a News and Case Studies page and a News Page (which only has links to four old-ish news articles) in addition to their older case studies page. Here is a tip for our ...more